Keep Going, Evergreen Is Nowhere

I couldn’t continue. I tried to lay down, but I couldn’t bend my legs.

I thought about leaning against a tree, but none were in sight. In denial, I scanned the land in search of some way to shield myself from the cruel beating that the world was currently giving me, but to no use. I plodded forward on the path that wasn’t actually there. But something was pulling me one way more than the other. Was it because I had packed my backpack unevenly, or was it because I was about to find my purpose?

This entire journey was followed through because it would give me a chance to define myself and to see who I really was.

I followed the magnetic route with high hopes that it would end this suffering, and I would be capable of fulfilling my desires. As if out of nowhere, a 10 meter long, one-foot-high wall, made of the white powder that was sprinkling everywhere, stood in front of a lonely, snow-patched pine tree and blocked my path, almost like it was trying to guard it. I had no idea what it was and barely paid attention to it as I carefully stepped over the barrier and suddenly blanked out.

I don’t know if I slipped on a patch of ice and hit my head or if my winded body had enough. All I can tell you is that now, my backpack has disappeared, the very wall that stood in my way just a few minutes ago was now around me and I couldn’t move at all. Most eerily, though, the evergreen was nowhere to be found.

47 Replies to “Keep Going, Evergreen Is Nowhere”

  20. Good job, Shreyans. Don’t let any wall stop or slow you down. Knock it down and keep marching.

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